Making HTTPS URL as default in Google Analytics

As part of the tasks after moving your site to HTTPS secure versions, we should also make HTTPS URL as the default URL in your Google Analytics, especially if you have AdSense programs. FYI (related background): Have HTTPS on WordPress.  Now What? [Part 1] My WordPress has HTTPS, Now What? [Part 2]  

How to add HTTPS property to Google Search Console

I already have website properties in Google Search Console.  But how do I add a new property to Google Search Console? After all the brain-wrecking work of dealing with installing HTTPS to my websites, I now need to add the https property to Google Search Console.  This is because Google considers HTTPS url and HTTP […]

Naming Faces in Google Photos

How do I go about Naming Faces in Google Photos? In my previous post (Google Photos – Face Recognition, Face Grouping), I initially expressed that it did not seem as if Google Photos offered us here in Australia the ability to manually select and label a face in a photo. That is partially true but […]

Auto Ads for Adsense in Word Press

What are Auto Ads for Adsense? After so many years, I still find Google’s Ad Sense confusing.  But it still manages to earn me a bit of money.  Recently (well maybe not so recently), I received an email from Google re. Auto Ads and suggesting I set them up.  Of course, I procrastinated. But today […]

Google Photos – Face Recognition, Face Grouping

How to enable Face Grouping in Google Photos Google Photos offers Face Recognition leading to the ability to have Face Grouping. Which means that photos containing a person’s face can be automatically grouped together. Which means it is easy to create an album about that person. And to create such an album to share if […]

Google Photos FAQ

Google Photos FAQ because I have only recently started using Google Photos and there are a few core questions I need answers for. FYI: I am using Apple products – iPhone, iPad, Mac.  I am not sure if these answers will relate to non-Apple products.   NOTE: the syncing across devices is not immediate. There […]

Google Photos App – Why and How to Install

How to install Google Photos on IOS devices and why you would want to. I had heard of Google Photos, but with no convincing clarity of what it was and how to use it.  But lately I was working with some photos in my Apple’s IOS iCloud Shared Library/Albums (sorry, Apple keeps changing names of […]

GA Reports – 4 Main Questions Answered

The reason we even bother with Google Analytics is that we want answers regarding our websites. Today we will look at some of the most popular questions.  And how GA Reports will give us the answers.

How to Read Google Analytics Reports

Google Analytics reports are very comprehensive and in-depth.  Ironically, that is also why the reporting interface can be overwhelmingly intimidating to most of us. So let’s get a handle on how to read those reports.